Sabs K. Quereshi

Professorial Lecturer

Part-time Faculty


Contact:

Office Phone: (202) 235-5190

Sabeeha 'Sabs' Quereshi boasts more than 17 years of experience in global health, national/bio security, health systems and finance reform, foreign policy, gender equality, and humanitarian crises. Currently, an adjunct professor at George Washington University Elliott School, she has held notable positions at the Rockefeller Foundation, the U.S. Department of Defense during the Biden-Harris administration, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Educated at Harvard Kennedy School, Marquette University, George Washington University, and pursuing a doctorate at Johns Hopkins, Quereshi is also a Presidential Leadership Scholar and a Council on Foreign Relations term member. 


Foreign Policy, Gender Equality, Global Health, National Security, International Development, Humanitarian Assistance, Public Policy, Multilateral and Government Affairs

  • TEDx Talk Boston Speaker, How to Scale AI & ML to Advance Localization and Gender Equity in Humanitarian Aid 2023
  • Advisory Committee Member, Council on Foreign Relations, Special Report on Global Health 2023-Present
  • Presidential Leadership Scholar- LBJ, Clinton, and Bush Foundations/Institutes 2022-Present
  • Council on Foreign Relations, Term Member 2020-Present
  • Delta Omega Honors Society- GWU Chapter 2019-Present
  • Harvard Women in Defense, Diplomacy, and Development (3D), Board Member 2019-2022
  • UN WHO IHR, Emergency, Preparedness, HSS Expert Roster 2018-Present
  • US DHHS Honor Award Recipient for Salmonella Montevideo Outbreak Investigation Group 2010

Harvard Kennedy School
George Washington University
Marquette University

Women in Global Politics